Robert Graham and Sarah Brown
Husband Robert Graham 1 2 3 4 5
Born: 1768 - Dauphin Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: 1849 - ? Butler Co, PA 6 Buried:Marriage: 1800 7
Wife Sarah Brown 2 6
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Robert Brown ( - ) 8 Mother:
Children
1 M William Graham 9
Born: Nov or Dec 1803 - ? Butler Co, PA 10 Christened: Died: Bef 1883 - near Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA Buried:
2 M Robert Graham 1 5 11
Born: 1807 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 11 Christened: Died: Aug 1873 - Penn Twp, Butler Co, PA 11 12 Buried:Spouse: Sarah Ann Wigfield (Abt 1805-1861) 11 13
3 M James Graham 1
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1883 Buried:
4 M John Brown Graham 1 3 4 14 15
Born: 1809 - near Butler, Butler Co, PA 14 Christened: Died: 1893 - ? Butler, Butler Co, PA 14 Buried: - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PASpouse: Sarah Gilkey (1809-1898) 14 16
5 F Rachel Graham 1
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1883 Buried:Spouse: Festus Young ( - ) 7
6 F Mary Graham 1 17
Born: - Butler Co, PA Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Daniel Brodhead Heiner (1807-1882) 17 18 19
7 M Williamson Graham 1
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1883 Buried:
8 M Samuel Graham 6
Born: Christened: Died: while young Buried:
9 F Sarah Graham 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Walker Reed ( - ) 6 7
10 F Lydia Graham 1 20
Born: 1819 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 20 Christened: Died: Jan 1868 20 Buried:Spouse: John Crawford (1818-1901) 6 7 21
11 M Ebenezer Graham 1 22
Born: 25 Dec 1824 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 22 Christened: Died: Aft 1883 Buried:Spouse: [Unk] Thompson ( -Abt 1850) 22 Marr: 1850 22Spouse: Wilhelmina Fetter ( -1875) 22 Marr: 18 Oct 1853 22
General Notes: Husband - Robert Graham
His father immigrated from Scotland in the 1700s and settled close to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where Robert was born. After arriving at manhood Robert removed to Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and about 1797 came to Butler County and purchased a tract of one hundred acres, which he afterwards sold to the commissioners who laid out a part of the town of Butler thereon. This land was conveyed to the Governor of the State under the act of 1803, in connection with the Cunningham tract of 200 acres. He then removed outside the borough limits and purchased 400 acres, upon which he built a log cabin, later the site of John Berg's residence. There he resided until his death.
He was a life-long Whig. In 1882 he was elected a commissioner of Butler County. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church forty years.
He was born on the banks of the Susquehanna river, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and emigrated from there to Washington County, Pennsylvania, with his father's family when a young man. He was the youngest of several brothers and was of Scotch-Irish descent. He was a pioneer of Butler County in 1797, and his family was doubtless the first which settled within the limits of the borough of Butler. They resided in a log cabin where Mr. Daugherty's house would later stand, near the North Cemetery, and the location was near but not inside of the original town plat. In his religious views he was a Presbyterian, and, for a period of forty years before his death, he was an Elder in the Butler Church.
He was a pioneer of Butler, Pennsylvania, and one of its most public-spirited citizens in the early days. He came from Cumberland County, in the eastern part of the state. A large land-owner, he donated to Butler most of the land on which the city was located, what became the residence portion, the grant being made by a special act of the Legislature in 1803.
1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 171, 180.
2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 731, 908.
3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 509.
4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 26.
5 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 775.
6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 171.
7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 731.
8 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 731, 771.
9 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 148, 171, 180.
10 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 148.
11 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 908.
12 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 180.
13 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 242.
14 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 732.
15 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 327, 1076.
16 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 327.
17 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 405.
18 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 128x, 171.
19 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 986, 988.
20 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 118.
21 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 418.
22
—, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 771.
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